For America, sovereignty is essential not only to our existence and legitimacy as a nation, but our identity as a people, because here the people rule. Who we allow into our country, legally or not, is at the core of our sovereignty, because if you change who is in America, you change how America is governed. That’s the natural result of a system based on elections, representation, and public opinion. This kind of change is not necessarily a bad thing. Different groups of immigrants have added much to our nation. But we have to acknowledge that changes within the population alter the direction
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